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More explicit explanation: session testing
Use a more explicit explanation on how to write code to test own code when sessions are needed. The previous code was not fully explicit that the client is supposed to be called after the session transaction and not during.
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access the session before a request was fired. Starting with Flask 0.8 we
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provide a so called “session transaction” which simulates the appropriate
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calls to open a session in the context of the test client and to modify
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it. At the end of the transaction the session is stored. This works
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independently of the session backend used::
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it. At the end of the transaction the session is stored and ready to be
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used by the test client. This works independently of the session backend used::
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with app.test_client() as c:
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with c.session_transaction() as sess:
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sess['a_key'] = 'a value'
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# once this is reached the session was stored
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# once this is reached the session was stored and ready to be used by the client
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c.get(...)
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Note that in this case you have to use the ``sess`` object instead of the
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:data:`flask.session` proxy. The object however itself will provide the
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